The low budget limited the number of big names that Carpenter could attract, and most of the actors received very Halloween is a 1978 horror movie and the first film in the Halloween movie series. On Halloween 1963 in Illinois, six year old Michael Myers murders his sister. Fifteen years later, he escapes from a psychiatric hospital, returns home, and stalks teenager Laurie Strode and her friends.

Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, cowritten with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The film tells the story of Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium as a child for the murder of his older sister Judith Myers.

Halloween (1978) On the Halloween night of 1963, the small town of Haddonfield was terrorized by a young girl's murder, which is commited by her own little brother.

15 years later, when the incident has faded from people's memories, the devious Myers escapes the mental institute and intends to spread the fear once again.